literally collapsed down here. there should be building right out here and the floor the pancaked down, with the roof tipping over down there. from here, the damage even more devastating than below. more than half the building s 46 apartments destroyed. so the firefighters will come up here, and as they ve been doing all day, in this dangerous mission here, literally putting themselves in danger to try to recover, to clear out the site. ukrainian officials believe all this devastation caused by a single russian kh-101 stealth cruise missile. it is the single deadliest strike on civilians since january. 109 people registered living here. as night fell, many of them still unaccounted for.
lived on the eighth floor near the top of the building. she said her friend had survived. the friend s husband was in hospital, but their two daughters, one 13 years old and her sister, 7 years old were still missing and the real big concern is of course, that they are under the rubble up there high in the building. that s where the firefighters will be going in the coming hours, jim. we know russia deliberately targets civilians, civilian areas. just quickly, were there any military targets in the area or was the strike here apparently deliberate? reporter: jim, it s not clear. this was a stealth kh-101 cruise missile flying below the radar. this is what the officials as ukrainian officials are telling us, what military sites may be close to this area, we don t know. most of these towns around here, and this is a small town. most of these towns have airfields. we wouldn t know what would be using that sort of airfield. yeah, and you got to plug in coordinates for those missiles.
across ukraine. in the hardest hit, two rockets hit apartment buildings and a warehouse, killing at least 17 people. in dnipro the attack killed a mother and her 2-year-old child and sparked this raging fire. i can show you on the map where the cities are. dnipro, uman, kyiv the capital saw strikes too. nic robertson is in uman for us. nic, tell us what you re seeing. reporter: the recovery is still going on here, intense efforts at this building behind me, ukraine s interior minister says he believes at the moment that this was caused by a stealth cruise missile, a kh-101 flying at low level. but let me get out of the way. david s going to zoom in, and you can take a look there at the firefighters. they re gathered around the first floor there. these big diggers have been pulling out rubble for hour after hour, ten hours now since
literally putting themselves in danger to try to recover, to clear out the site. ukrainian officials believe all this devastation caused by a single russian kh-101 stealth cruise missile. it is the single deadliest strike on civilians since january. 109 people registered living here. as night fell, many of them still unaccounted for. and this effort here to find the last of the missing is massive. the police, the firefighters say they re going to work through the night. they re not going to give up. we re seeing police here doing dna testing for families, police, psychologists, grieving family members here. it is a massive outpouring of support. it s a message for the ukrainians to themselves, it s a message to president putin from the ukrainians, no amount of shelling is going to make them give up.